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scott can't tell if you're kidding or not, but those youtube clips are either shitty later stuff or really shitty (but funny) early stuff like those '84 clips.

fwiw heres two tracks from "bullhead" so you can at least hear a record of theirs
Boris
Zodiac

as far as "spot the grunge band", as far as i know you've got it backasswards and you're probably hearing the melvins in those other bands. they started in '84 after all and nirvana, mudhoney, et al were big fans.

i have to say i'm not as hot on this band as i used to be so i can see them not sounding all that great to a new listener in '06.

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

(fuck, scratch out "as far as.." wherever applicable in that post)

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

no, i know that they were the ones who influenced the grungers. and not the other way around. but the stuff i listened to was way grungy, no matter how you slice it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

people i trust (like eyehategod) swear by gluey porch treatments, and if i ever see a copy cheap, i will definitely buy it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah thats the only one you need if any. if i had that cd i would have put tracks from that up instead.

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

btw i might have a "hardcore" tape (from years ago) to send you!

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

that would be nice and much appreciated. and i would do my darndest to send you something in return.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

you guys should head on over to www.themelvins.net (theres even a forum) instead of banging your heads against the wall.

― klump, Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:25 (twenty years ago)

Is the Gluey Porch Treatments Ipecac reissue worth getting if you already have Ozma/GPT on Boner? How are the bonus tracks? Is it remastered? etc.

― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

The new album (out October 10th), (A) Senile Animal, is really, really great. It's a pretty straight forward rock record and the guitars are not as heavy as a few recent releases (i.e. pigs, maggot), but it really rocks. They've teamed up with Big Business, so there are two drummers and really cool double/triple vocals. Four members total. So far, the reviews for their current US tour are extremely positive. I've already got my ticket for the final date in Dallas.

― Harpal (harpal), Sunday, 10 September 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have, like 10 Melvins albums and they're all insanely good.
But on the later albums it helps if you like weird electronic noise experiments thrown in with your grunge-metal, which kind of ISN'T a given, is it?

The Melvins/Biafra collab is tops too. Very anthemic, kind of reminds me of the first Black Sabbath album on speed.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 11 September 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Minus the bluesiness, of course.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 11 September 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

new album's pretty fuckin tight!
can't wait to see the Big Belvins...
another solid one

― edde (edde), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Any more thoughts on Senile Animal? I'm listening now and it's pretty rad so far. I like that all the songs are either under three minutes or over six.

― Nigel (Nigel), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LNP%2BE8lML._SS500_.jpg

― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:57 (seventeen years ago)

thoughts on above?

― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:57 (seventeen years ago)

excellent album

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

hey, wow, stoner witch is way better than i remember it being. like houdini but more cohesive or something. cohesive, that's a good word.

― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 08:48 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Hostile Ambient Takeover: SO underrated. so much interesting stuff going on throughout. kicks ass also.

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

Is the remixes album worth checking out? I generally hate remixes

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

Not heard it yet. i hear each remixer is actually using elements from a whole album rather than just a song, so could be interesting

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:23 (sixteen years ago)

The remix album is best avoided.

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

my annoying co-worker keeps talking about how heavy metal is his favorite music to make powerpoint presentations to. I found out he was talking about the Melvins.

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 02:26 (sixteen years ago)

the remix album has its moments of brilliance and its moments of bleh, but none of it is better than unadulterated melvins.

― m the g, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 07:43 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

As noted by Andy K elsewhere:

http://grungereport.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/buzzworldseries.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 October 2010 13:56 (fifteen years ago)

buzz like the giants

― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

Cuet panda hat girl too.

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

that's thalia zedek

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)

lol

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

Anyone else going?

http://blowthescene.com/bands/melvins-bands/the-melvins-spaceland-residency-this-january.html

― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

The Melvins are set to perform each Friday throughout January at Spaceland (Silver Lake, Calif.) with a different set and featured albums including the band’s current line-up, a 1983 incarnation with Mike Dillard and several albums in their entirety.

The band’s most recent release, The Bride Screamed Murder, was released by Ipecac Recordings in June. A limited edition vinyl version of the album will be on sale at the shows with each handcrafted album featuring detachable artwork from one of ten different artists.

If you missed it, Blow The Scene Senior Staff Writer Adam Rauf caught up with the Melvins in Washington DC as part of Isis‘s final tour for an exclusive interview.

Performance information is as follows:

Jan. 7: Melvins set (current line-up performing songs from Colossus of Destiny); Lysol and Eggnog records in their entirety

Jan. 14: Melvins 1983 (Buzz, Dale and Mike Dillard); Melvins set (current line-up performing normal set) and Houdini in its entirety

Jan. 21: Melvins Lite (Buzz & Dale only); Melvins set (current line-up performing normal set) and Bullhead in its entirety

Jan. 28: Melvins set (current line-up performing normal set) and Stoner Witch in its entirety

― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

going on the 14th i think

― ObviousSccck (buzza), Thursday, 6 January 2011 08:27 (fifteen years ago)

I wish I could go tomorrow.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 6 January 2011 13:59 (fifteen years ago)

y'know Stag is a really cool album, for all of its genre-hopping weirdness...

― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:56 (fifteen years ago)

whoa dude this sounds dope imo

― good and bad, interesting and boring, experimental and traditional (jdchurchill), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

anyone here go the the show last week??

― buzza, Friday, 14 January 2011 05:59 (fifteen years ago)

good show! had to leave a bit early because of the sitter but glad i went

― buzza, Sunday, 16 January 2011 01:17 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Any other reports on that show? I should try to dig up a piece I wrote when we booked Melvins to play outside of our student union at Macalester spring 1990. "Like an atomic bomb in a paper bag."

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:37 (fifteen years ago)

Melvins Poll

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

new live album Sugar Daddy Live is really awesome, one of their best live things. and these guys have a LOT of live albums... i dare not even count them. i think i have four but i know there's a few more.

― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Sunday, 15 May 2011 16:38 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I was listening to it yesterday. The Melvins are better now than they've ever been, and this live album is the proof of that.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 15 May 2011 16:53 (fifteen years ago)

i agree, though consensus seems like Bride was a bit undercooked/a mixed bag. do you agree?

totally loved Senile and Nude, tho

― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Sunday, 15 May 2011 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

The first and last tracks kinda sucked; everything in between was great. (And I liked the first track when they played it live.)

― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 15 May 2011 17:20 (fifteen years ago)

huh, maybe i should listen again, its been a year or so

― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Monday, 16 May 2011 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

dudes bride is good melvins for sure listen

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:03 (fifteen years ago)

run me run me in the dust
huh me huh me ten hut

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

i mean dude evil new war god is top notch c'mon

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:24 (fifteen years ago)

if you listen to pig house and don't die awesome

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:28 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Whiney's feature on _Lysol_ is a must-read:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-06-01/music/the-melvin-s-power-disinfectant/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 15:37 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/World-Famous-MELVAN-MELVINS-Tour-Van-Artwork-Kurt-Cobain-NIRVANA-/150771070206

― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 5 March 2012 16:41 (fourteen years ago)

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